Thursday, February 2, 2017

In the first half, former assistant professor, and lecturer with NASA's Johnson Space Center, Rod Pyle
offered his insider's perspective on the most unusual and daring space
missions ever devised inside and outside of NASA, some flown, and others
that never got off the ground. While NASA has currently been
considering a manned mission to Mars, this is not the first time such a
proposal has been floated, he said. Going all the way back to the 1950s,
we've been told a Mars mission was just "20 to 30" years away, starting
with Wernher von Braun's plans in 1953.
While Pyle doesn't believe there is a "secret space program" with covert
technologies, he noted that in the 1950s and 60s, there were US Army
and Air Force "Project Horizon" plans for militarized American moonbases
that never materialized. One of the projected weapons for the moonbase
was a bazooka-style nuclear warhead that was actually tested, he
revealed, adding that there was concern that the Russians would set up a
base on the moon first. Additionally, the Air Force had a proposal for a
surveillance space station in the 1960s, with an immense telescope to
look down at the Russians. He also touched on Nazi rocket spaceflight
plans, NASA's Gemini missions, and the fatal first flight of the Soviet
Soyuz spacecraft.
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Recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions
about humanity's history and prehistory, Graham Hancock has challenged
the entrenched views of orthodox scholars. In the latter half, he shared
his insights and evidence, as well as recent travels to the world's
most mysterious archaeological sites. Hancock contends that a global
cataclysm wiped out an advanced civilization around 12,000 years ago and
made us a species with amnesia. This timeline is backed by a new theory
that there was a large cometary impact during the geological Younger
Dryas period from 12,800 to 11,600 years ago, he reported.
One of the most extraordinary correlations to this timeline is the
Gobekli Tepe megalithic site in Turkey which dates back nearly 12,000
years and is a "giant archaeological mystery," Hancock remarked. It was
previously thought that only hunter-gatherers lived in that time period,
yet the site, discovered by Klaus Schmidt in the 1990s, contains
sophisticated astronomical features, and 20 ft. high pillars carved from
stone with artistic designs. This was also the time that agriculture
first emerged. He correlated Gobekli with some of the ancient works in
Egypt such as the Sphinx, which may be far older than it was originally
thought, and cited the work of rogue Egyptologist John Anthony West who
is facing a battle with cancer.
News segment guests: Jerome Corsi, Christian Wilde